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Possibly one of the best and worst cases i’ve played with recently.

I like the layout, and it’s fairly standard inside, Clips for the expansion cards, USB/Firewire on top and harddrive caddy.

I’ll give you what I don’t like about it, since if you’ve come here searching for this, that is what you are interested in.

Front “Doors” : The two hinged “doors” either side tend to pull the top of the case out, it’s hard to explain and i’m without photos at the moment (I may update later) but when you put pressure on the “door” the standoff it has pushes against the body and since the main body twists, it pulls the top “clip”, since the Armor Jr has a double front (doors, then a key to pull the whole front open and go medievel on the drive bays) it has clips top and bottom, and a key lock (standard, like the old-school floppy cases) to hold it closed, the top clip pops out Note: This may only be a problem on the Silver/Aluminium model.

Hard Drive Cage : The hard drive cage, which lets yousecure drives in the confort of your chair, and then slid the cage int othe case, seems not to sit as far as it should into the case, it is fine for IDE drives (who uses IDE these days anyway) but because of SATA cables being about 2cm of plug plus cable bend added on, they get pushed up against the window on the side, I think this will need photos as well.

Connectors : Beware ! The internal connectors come as individual pin connectors, with “non-standard” (or at least to me) naming.  I had to guess and prod the Audio to figure out which ones are which, and I haven’t tested it yet so we might findout i’m wrong, and becaose of the short leads from the cable to the plug on each pin they’re a challenge to get on right first time, and to stay on afterwards. I’m tempted to make a stndard header (or cut one off somewhere *whistles innocently*) and make an “adaptor” for the connectors.
Top USB/Firewire : This is a great thing and a annoyance in one, I was talking with a colleague about this.  The top ports allow you to plug in headphones, microphone, two USB or a Firewire device.  This is really great for access, especially for people like myself that leave out computers on the ground, but when you raise the dust cover all the plugs are exposed, so if you want to hook up you ipod, you get dust in all the other connectors at the same time.

Now that we have the dislikes out of the way.

2 Fans STANDARD : Fans = Good, ’nuff said

Windowed Side : well this should go in dislikes, but it’s just so pretty, especially with an overwanky Motherboard (read: ABIT Fatal1ty AN9 32x) and overwanky RAM (Corsair with activity LEDs for example)

Filtered Front : Nice removable filters over the front grills, Dust Bewarned !

Clippy “Screwless” Expansion slot clips : These were fiddly, as I am a man and incapable of reading an instruction manual, these clips I loosened the screws on when I first did it, until I realised the screws didn’t hold them in, they clip into the case.  Errrr moving right along.

Actually, that’s about it.

Overall a good case, but some nice little tweaks here and there would be good.

I build myself a new machine yesterday, and I feel so warm over the bragging rights I have now

I bought an Armor Jr (damned american spelling) Thermaltake, which i’ll post seperately about, an Athlon 64 x2 4200+ 65w, 2gb of Corsair PC-6400 Pro with the wanky Activity LEDs, an ABIT Fatal1ty AN9 32x, and a Gigabyte 7600GT

I know it isn’t bleeding edge, but most of the parts are bang-for-buck or “pricepoint” items (most speed/space/wankyness for the $ infested [sic])

I just read the article on it-pro (don’t close the window or you will get a registration screen thereafter) and I hadn’t heard of this man either.

A single persons decision changed the world, it’s not often those things happen outside of movies.

So spread the word, Let us not just remember the fifth of november, but add 26th of september.

Wikipedia Article : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

I’ve had my limit with Apple Support.

I applied for a repair online, and waited. Then my RA request gets cancelled with no explanation.

When I reapply for a new RA i’m told that I’m now out of warranty.

I can only assume that the RA was held up until I was no longer Apple’s problem.

…..

Yet I’m still salivating at the new iPod 80gb, they must have some damned good subliminal advertising, I get f… stuffed around a few weeks ago, and i’m already looking at a new one.

Although, I’m not going to waste the money on the Protection Plan, as obviously, it’s more of a Protection Racket

I didn’t realise until now that FAT32 can actually be used on quite large partitions.  I was surprised when I saw this popup during a network setup of Windows.

after being recommended the series from a friend, I borrowed his set of DVD’s and set in for a LONG nights watch … well it was after work for about 3 days straight, with very little sleep, but give me my artistic license.

This series was great.

I love Bleach and Naruto, but they’re so very very long, it’s daunting. (and the Dub of Naruto … WHAT WERE YOU THINKING !!!) this was a complete arc, start to finish 51 episodes. (and a DVD that has been released in the US but not here yet, hurry up madman !)

I’ll probably write a bit more later, but overall I enjoyed it, I even watched it dubbed instead of subbed, and I wasn’t prone to violent outbursts like when I see naruto dubbed.

Edit: Check out the Wikipedia Article for more info in the mean time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_metal_alchemist

A friend I work with mentioned to me that “I’ve seen Calamity Jane the original with Doris Day, and well, the real Calamity Jane was ugly”

I just thought it needed logging on the internets.

For Example.

Doris Day : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Day
Real Calamity Jane (who looks like a man in sheeps clothing) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamity_Jane

I need to stop working and start posting …

Or if anyone from work reads this, move along, nothing to see here.

I was forwarded a link to the new interactive map with a note to “check out the cities in netherstorm ;)” (yes with the smiley)

I ignored it (sorry dude, I was at work)

Then a workmate came over and asked me if I had looked at the link he forwarded me in work chat, huzzah the same link, I thought it might be worth checking so I opened it.

This is just a really long layout to being shown what is one of the funniest things I have seen in the last 10 minutes.

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